Highly accomplished Senior Platform Engineer and Site Reliability Architect with 12+ years of enterprise experience designing and automating secure, scalable multi-cloud infrastructure. Hands-on technical leadership across Kubernetes, CI/CD, and GitOps, with strong focus on production reliability, high availability, and platform modernization for mission-critical systems. Expert in IaC using Terraform, declarative delivery with ArgoCD, and enterprise observability (Datadog, OpenTelemetry, ELK). Deep experience in InfoSec reviews, disaster recovery, compliance in regulated environments, and building infrastructure to support ML platforms, telemetry frameworks, and enterprise BI architectures.

NAGA MANISH BATHALA

Highly accomplished Senior Platform Engineer and Site Reliability Architect with 12+ years of enterprise experience designing and automating secure, scalable multi-cloud infrastructure. Hands-on technical leadership across Kubernetes, CI/CD, and GitOps, with strong focus on production reliability, high availability, and platform modernization for mission-critical systems. Expert in IaC using Terraform, declarative delivery with ArgoCD, and enterprise observability (Datadog, OpenTelemetry, ELK). Deep experience in InfoSec reviews, disaster recovery, compliance in regulated environments, and building infrastructure to support ML platforms, telemetry frameworks, and enterprise BI architectures.

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Highly accomplished Senior Platform Engineer and Site Reliability Architect with 12+ years of enterprise experience designing and automating secure, scalable multi-cloud infrastructure. Hands-on technical leadership across Kubernetes, CI/CD, and GitOps, with strong focus on production reliability, high availability, and platform modernization for mission-critical systems.

Expert in IaC using Terraform, declarative delivery with ArgoCD, and enterprise observability (Datadog, OpenTelemetry, ELK). Deep experience in InfoSec reviews, disaster recovery, compliance in regulated environments, and building infrastructure to support ML platforms, telemetry frameworks, and enterprise BI architectures.

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Work Experience

Senior Platform Engineer / Cloud Platform Architect at Citigroup
November 1, 2023 - Present
Led modernization of mission-critical banking applications by designing secure, scalable cloud-native platforms across AWS and Azure. Architected production-grade multi-region Kubernetes environments (AKS and EKS), implemented GitOps with ArgoCD across 50+ cluster nodes, and built reusable Terraform modules to reduce environment replication overhead by 50%. Established enterprise observability using OpenTelemetry and Datadog across 2,000+ application endpoints. Automated ML platform infrastructure using Kubeflow and MLflow, and delivered GPU-capable node provisioning. Hardened security posture via Azure RBAC (least privilege), Key Vault encryption, and embedded container security scanning. Improved resilience through chaos/failure simulations, and enhanced uptime by 30%. Delivered CI/CD and data infrastructure automation for Redshift and RDS, built resilient centralized Elasticsearch logging with ILM optimizations, and automated operational workflows via Python/Bash. Integrated Service
DevOps Engineer | SRE & Support at Centene Corporation
August 1, 2021 - October 31, 2023
Modernized healthcare claims processing by migrating high-traffic workloads to a HIPAA-compliant Azure Kubernetes Service platform using Terraform and AKS. Orchestrated hybrid networking using Azure ExpressRoute and AWS Direct Connect. Built unified secrets ingestion integrating AWS Secrets Manager with Azure Key Vault inside CI/CD workflows. Enforced compliance using Azure Policy extensions and CI/CD audit blocks. Implemented storage lifecycle automation across Amazon S3 and Azure Blob tiers. Re-architected enterprise CI/CD using Azure DevOps and Jenkins for containerized microservices delivery. Created reusable staging/production infrastructure blueprints via nested Terraform and Ansible, embedded DevSecOps image scanning (Aqua, Trivy), and deployed Kafka event-driven messaging on Kubernetes. Built monitoring dashboards with Prometheus/Grafana, designed DR using Azure Site Recovery with failover simulations (RTO-focused), integrated enterprise SSO via Azure AD with RBAC, automated Ng
DevOps Automation Engineer at AT&T
July 1, 2019 - July 31, 2021
Orchestrated automation and scaling of 5G network services by deploying containerized applications on Amazon EKS. Designed production EKS clusters within private subnets using AWS VPC CNI for optimized throughput. Implemented serverless cost mitigation with Lambda/Python to remove orphaned EBS volumes and idle Elastic IPs. Built geo-distributed traffic routing with Route 53 (weighted/latency policies). Automated AWS Config remediation to flag and correct non-compliant configurations. Created an immutable Golden Image factory using Packer and hardened AMIs distributed across AWS org roots. Administered Jenkins build execution farms and coordinated container build artifacts with Nexus. Provisioned multi-cloud network backbones with Terraform and AWS CDK. Regulated image lifecycles with ECR scanning workflows and integrated with ECS/EKS runtimes. Implemented zero-downtime blue/green and canary releases via Spinnaker. Deployed centralized observability using ELK and created Kibana visuals
Build & Release Engineer at USAA
April 1, 2018 - June 30, 2019
Designed automated end-to-end CI pipelines using Jenkins, Git, and Nexus for standardized compilation, artifact indexing, and controlled code propagation. Governed source management with structured branching, cherry-picking, and automated merging rules. Authored quality controls using Python and SonarQube to pre-block insecure/non-compliant code. Provisioned highly available AWS architectures using EC2, S3, IAM, and Application Load Balancers scripted with CloudFormation. Packaged components into Docker behind load balancers for self-healing operations. Standardized RHEL provisioning with Ansible and shell scripts and set up centralized monitoring via Splunk with custom alerts.
Linux System Administrator at Trinity Health
July 1, 2016 - March 31, 2018
Managed installation, configuration, and upgrade tracking for enterprise Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX environments. Administered storage using LVM/VxVM and managed file systems and virtualization layers. Performed Linux kernel tuning and custom build orchestration. Maintained high availability for WebLogic/WebSphere middleware deployments. Implemented ZFS pools, snapshots, and mirrored volumes for dependable local recovery. Managed core network services including DNS and NTP, and operated dedicated MySQL databases. Deployed and tuned Nagios alerts to proactively resolve systemic issues before service degradation.
Software Engineer at Amtrak
June 1, 2014 - June 30, 2016
Worked in Git-based version control with disciplined branching, merging, and conflict mitigation. Developed application modules in Java and Python to meet performance requirements. Authored automated test structures using JUnit/TestNG/pytest and integrated tests into Jenkins pipelines to validate incoming changes. Managed binary versioning using JFrog Artifactory and supported secure artifact/package dependency management. Used JIRA for sprint tracking, defect isolation, and lifecycle clarity across active updates.

Education

Master’s degree at Lindsey Wilson University
January 11, 2030 - July 23, 2026

Qualifications

Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator
January 11, 2030 - July 23, 2026
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
January 11, 2030 - July 23, 2026
AWS Developer – Associate
January 11, 2030 - July 23, 2026

Industry Experience

Financial Services, Healthcare, Telecommunications, Professional Services, Government, Other